As an American, I hope Canadians see through the false dilemma being proposed and learn from the abuse NAFTA and only-quarterly-results-matter thinking got the American middle class in manufacturing and consumption; it almost no longer exists and has been deflated rapidly. To say nothing of the clear lessons about off-shoring critical infrastructure, I hope cooler heads prevail and Canada maintains its sovereignty.
Reminds me of signs in Oregon “No littering, $500 maximum fine"
Like why the fuck would you put the max when it’s low? Talk about a Cobra Effect…but that’s the point, it’s not desired to be effective, might inadvertently make driving slightly less appealing and cut some infinitesimal slice of big oils profits to be able to cross the street safely.
If you haven’t seen “a million ways to die in the west”, it was a Brooks-worthy send-up.
Meanwhile 250B unfunded to start a war in Iran from which fuckall was gained, and much other than money was lost, is unquestionably funded.
Just like afghanistan. iraq.
Probably just a coincidence.
The problem with the “reinvestment” thesis is that the US and certainly not California, aren’t some fledgling economies struggling to develop and grow–wealth is so unhealthily concentrated it leads to those with outsized portion of the gains investing in things for the sake of investing rather than actually doing anything good for the economy(let alone nation) long term.
Billionaires have wealth managers and investment teams throwing money at returns regardless of externalities, tax minimization, lobbying…they aren’t putting money into anything “real” that anyone on main street or any other street would benefit from.
5% one time seems so poorly thought out it was designed to be voted down by those who want real change (permanent, ongoing), which is anyone not in the 1%
To ensure proper pizza allocation, we will require Lazer engraving on our work unit (employee) necks here at META to ensure desirable fun ratios are achieved.
What does “X country corporation” in any industry mean when they have shell companies in the Cayman Islands, Isle of Man, Ireland or wherever tax rates and shelters can be best structured?
Corporations have always been and will always be resource leeches that will abandon a country once they no longer have any blood left to suck. The host organism here in the US has already been overcome and Corps are about to start digesting previously pristine federal lands and forests for mining, forestry, and the critical national interest of off-road ATVing.
There are no “country” corporations, they lobbied to be extra-national deliberately.
Google Voice user for 15 years and I’ve had about 3 instances where my number wasn’t usable for 2FA, mostly because, to your point, by the time companies that care about security learned about voip #s they realized they are mostly used legitimately and sms was insecure anyway. Luckily I found a great FOSS auth app, which I prefer to sms anyway; especially if traveling I don’t have to depend on a mobile connection to be able to complete 2FA.
There has never been a bigger windbag, so he may have a legitimate claim in there somewhere.
1700 students graduating, little shock one may have had a cell phone
This Stanford math is over my head.
It’s because when you write assholes well, assholes can’t help but deliver.
Let’s also remember it’s not “right wing leaders” who have passed 99% of the laws in Oregon in the past what, 30 years? Democrats sold out 30+ years ago and it’s been lip service to meaningful change ever since. They aren’t putting religion in schools or restricting voting, but corporate Democrats are the fucking problem in Oregon as they are centrist at best. We need support for progressives (which we’re starting to see finally break through in local elections) to meaningfully change things and move the pendulum back to the left.
'first COVID, then inflation" as if that were the start of the experience. Go back to NAFTA, passed by the Dems and Clinton when the party became fully corporate owned, that was the end of the US middle class, and the 90s was when education also died and became a commodity with universities being run by MBAs looking at students like they were cell phone plan subscribers. Education became unaffordable over just a matter of years while good middle class jobs went to Mexico (for those that already weren’t shiped overseas elsewhere).
Reagan’s destruction of the air traffic controller union, along with the introduction of the 401k were watershed moments for greed, financial insecurity and economic instability, and the end of the US’s flirtation with not being run by ultra rich.
I’m rich and would rather the word mean something else entirely. Hey, now it does and I get to lock up people who disagree with things that benefit me. The law is only as good as those wielding it.
Full house cleaning needed in UK, US, Aus and some parts of Canada. The rot and corruption cannot stand.
As deliberately decided.
The EU is under full frontal assault on many of its financial, consumer, commercial and technological protections and systems and is cracking and giving the pressure in many places unfortunately. Partner with the EU where you can, there are also interesting things happening in Brasil IIRC in this space.